> Have you evaluated using Perl/Tk? It appears to be a reasonable and very
> powerful front-end for Perl (and is portable to non-Win systems.)
Few things I've noticed about Perl/Tk and Win32::GUI:
- perl/tk is slower to startup - as you application grows this becomes
important.
- perl/tk's cut&paste behave differently as to other components, eg.
Listboxes
- maybe it's just me but I can't get perltk stuff to run with perl2exe.
How about PerlQT? - native look and feel of OS and runs under X and
Windows. I think QT is the widget toolkit used by the Linux KDE desktop.
-dhiltz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ian Taite
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 3:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [perl-win32-gui] Advice Wanted Re Design Of A GUI Wizard App
>
> I want to design a GUI for walking through creating an NT account according
> to local standards/requirements. Replacing our command line version with a
> GUI version presents some general programming problems which I must solve if
> I am to write this and other GUI wizard-based apps.
>
> I am new to Win32-GUI however, I have gone through some of the gui-tut pages
> and I am capable of getting a dialogue window on screen with some carefully
> positioned labels and buttons, along with processing user actions.
>
> Which approach should be taken for designing wizards? Two approaches spring
> to mind.
>
> I could have a single window on which I create and destroy controls to give
> the illusion of different steps or pages the user must go through. This
> might use minimum resources but would be hard to code, test and debug as
> well as probably being slow.
>
> I could have one window per step in the wizard.
>
> There are pros and cons to both methods.
>
> Can anyone recommend how I might design this solution?
>
> Regards,
> Ian.
>
>
>
